At 23:29 13/05/04, you wrote:
>Business and particularly finance sector regulations (which have the force,
>essentially, of law) are certainly tending toward a requirement to keep all
>emails _inside_ the company as well as with customers for periods of eg 6
>years.
>
>I know disk space is trivially cheap, but I also notice that not everyone is
>using efficient mail clients, and not everyone is posting individual emails
>for threading, ratehr than shipping the whole of the correspondence back and
>forth in each email.
>
>It mounts up.
>
>Add in a load of Word docs copied to everyone and it rapidly becomes a very
>considerable volume of data. (However, repetitious multiple emails will
>compress very very well if they are all stored in the same compressed file,
>IE same machine, because the tokens will be large and repeated many times.)
Many thanks.
And agree that good email habits are not spreading as fast as one would wish.
Top posting in particular reduces the encouragement to quote only as
necessary and seems to risk (i.e. actually leads to in my experience)
breaches of confidentiality.
(Perhaps I should have snipped more)
Julian
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